
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.



Robert Wagner
Bud Corliss

Jeffrey Hunter
Gordon Grant

Virginia Leith
Ellen Kingship

Joanne Woodward
Dorothy ('Dorie') Kingship

Mary Astor
Mrs. Corliss

George Macready
Leo Kingship

Robert Quarry
Dwight Powell

Howard Petrie
Howard Chesser, Chief of Police
Molly McCart
Annabelle Koch
Marlene Felton
Medical Student
A Kiss Before Dying is a thriller, drama, crime film released in 1956 exploring themes of based on novel or book, pregnancy, sister, film noir, murder, college student. Directed by Gerd Oswald, it stars Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith. A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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